Library Display: April 2014

Our campus has a huge Earth Day event every year.  It's basically a street fair with a farmer's market, recycling, free food, live music... party!

This year we decided to do our April display to go along with that theme:

You can see what we did there, right?  That shamrock from last month suddenly became a tree!  I brought in some flower pots from home and made "book flowers" with info on them.  And of course we had to have a copy of The Lorax!  Compared to others, this was a really easy one to do.  (Which is a good thing, since April is such a busy month!)  Books on the earth and recycling and gardening and conservation added color and interest to the shelves.

I got a bit whimsical with the dry erase board, but hey - that never costs anything so I can be as creative (or as boring!) as I'd like to be, right?

Finally, we dressed up the front window with a few flower cutouts and some leaves we made for a past display.  (Yes, we keep everything... who knows when you might need it and don't have time to make it again?)

Library Display: March 2014

We went all St. Patrick's Day this year, and picked up some cheap decorations at the party store (because you can never have enough glittery shamrocks, am-I-right?

We also bought rolls of crepe streamers to make the rainbow.  It was a little tricky making them line up, but it added a cool effect down to the pot of gold (black poster board and a printout of a pile of gold coins taped to the top!)  We made the big shamrock with bulletin board paper.

The books were all about the Irish - histories, authors, anything we could remotely tie in.

Then we did the front window with eBooks:

(and more glittery shamrocks!)

Finally, the most difficult part of the whole thing was the dry erase board.  

Nope, the lettering is not a stencil.  It's all done freehand.  I actually cleaned up the knot a bit after I took the pic because some of the lines didn't meet up right.  (Me, OCD?  Not on your life, she said, straightening the pencils in the cup holder.)